[TN-Bird] BaRRRRRd Owl

Angelia Lewis and I passed under a Barred Owl on a utility wire on Old 
Boone's Creek Road, Jonesborough about 5 p.m. while en route to the 
Kingsport Symphony's Scottish Program. All you Celts oot there should 
kna that Jan. 25 is the birthday of Bobby Burns, Bard for all time of 
Scotland.
I said, "I don't care if you do have dinner reservations for 5:30, I'm 
going back for a better look," turned around, stopped in the road with 
the flashers on, pulled out my binoculars which are ever at hand, and 
had wonderful looks at him in good light, went back past, turned again 
in a driveway almost under him and had another look before proceding on 
to Kingsport.
It was the first Barred Owl I've seen in East Tennessee at this low an 
elevation (about 1,500-1,800 above MSL). He was close enough to my house 
that I should have heard him asking who was cooking for whom in the 
diurnal hours, but I've na heard him on this end of the ridge.
When we returned after an evening of symphonic and Celtic music, 
including a piper playing with a symphony and not sounding too bloody 
awful (my usual assesment of the pipes) the unmated male Great Horned 
Owl who sounds like he's on a cell phone that is breaking up, was 
calling on down the ridge. Apparently no female gives a hoot for his now 
lonely  variant call.

Brooks' rule: Any Barred Owl seen on Bobby Burns' birthday automatically 
becomes a Bard owl, pronounced with a Scottish burr, e.g. BaRRRd Owl.

Jennisfer Wren was fond of saying, sometimes to excess, that it's a good 
day any time you see an owl, and so i' twas.

James Brooks
Malone Hollow
Jonesborough, TN

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